Before I go any further into the aesthetics argument, I'd like to point out that a lot of human psychological interaction happens from eye contact. I believe, since the whole cast of this film (appears to be) does not have facial CGI components in the eyes, it only strengthens the bizarre feeling that most of us are getting from seeing this.

Remember seeing the part in where the main actress and the (assumed) love interest lock eyes for a romantic moment? Did you not feel almost thrown off by it? Didn't it just feel unnatural?

This is my point; eyes are important part of human interaction on some of the deepest and most primitive levels. We interact with our eyes without knowing, and eyes can say a lot about certain things that we sometimes overlook. This movie is off putting because we are seeing something that appears to us as unnatural, hence, why everyone is saying things like "creepy" and the such.

Now, if the movies had everyone having CGI eyes, I'm confident that, though unorthodox, the film wouldn't feel as off putting. Shes a polar bear on a golf course on a hot summer day in Miami.

What the fuck were they thinking with the eyes?!?! This is live action and she's the only one who looks like that. How much of their god damn budget did they spend making this into uncanny-valley unwatchable bullshit?!

What the fuck were they thinking with the eyes?!?! This is live action and she's the only one who looks like that. How much of their god damn budget did they spend making this into uncanny-valley unwatchable bullshit?!

So they don't run into any ghost in the shell, ethnicity casting type problems. With anime eyes no one's gonna talk shit about the casting.

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To be fair, the only ones who would bitch about casting for Alita would be people ignorant of the source material. Gunnm takes place hundreds of years in the future and The Scrapyard is actually located in the US. Add to that that Alita herself is a full-body cyborg and is originally from Mars and you've got a character that is not at all Japanese. Visually Rosa Salazar is a good fit even without the gratuitous CGI-ification:

To be fair, the only ones who would bitch about casting for Alita would be people ignorant of the source material. Gunnm takes place hundreds of years in the future and The Scrapyard is actually located in the US. Add to that that Alita herself is a full-body cyborg and is originally from Mars and you've got a character that is not at all Japanese. Visually Rosa Salazar is a good fit even without the gratuitous CGI-ification:

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They got the look right, it's pretty good. Just weird looking at a human with huge eyes. But she does look like Gally.